Improvement in fastening- side-boards to grain-wagons



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Letters Patent No. 99,010, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENING SIDE-BOARDS TO GRAIN-WAGONS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE SEITZINGER, of Seneca, in the county of La Salle, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improvedltlode of Fastening Side- Boards to Grain-Wagons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyiug drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents, by a perspective view, a wagonbody, having my invention applied to it;

Figure 2 represents, by a side elevation, the sideboards and extra side pieces, detached; and

Figure 3 represents, by a sectional elevation, the same attached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish a means for increasing the carrying-capacity of an ordinary .wagon-box when desired and 1t consists in a device for fastening extra side pieces to the ordinary side-boards of a wagon, as will be hereinafter fully explained.

In the drawings- B represents the side-boards,'which, with the head and tail-boards, form the box of a common wagon.

On the inner side of each of these side-boards, I attach, at suitable distances apart, with nails or screws, two metal straps, a, whichterminate at'top in hooks A. To the same side, and in corresponding positions, I attach to the extra side pieces, 0, two metal straps b, which I provide, at their lower ends, with eyes A.

When it is desired .to increase the capacity of the wagon body, all that is required to be done is to enter the hooks of the straps attached to the sideboards into the eyes of the extra side pieces, turn the latter into an upright position, and put in the head and tail-boardsL The lower ends of the straps 1) project about one third, more or less, of their length below the top of the side-boards, and thus serve to keep the extra side pieces from falling outward, while they are prevented from falling inward by the head and tail-boards, and from rising by the hooks and eyes.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by 'Letters Patent, is

The means herein described for fastening extra side pieces to the ordinary side-boards of a wagon, the same consisting of the metal straps a I), provided respectively with hooks and eyes A A, and attached to the side-boards and extra side pieces B O, as and for the purpose specified.

' GEO. SEITZINGER. \Vitnesses W. A. LAMMEY, B. F. NEWPORT. 

